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Election Day was full of surprises, both on a national level and here at home. William Brandon Reed defeated long-time democratic incumbent, Terry Mills, in the state representative race by 1,591 votes.
In Marion County, Mills beat Reed with a resounding 5,973 votes to 2,117 votes, but it was LaRue and Green counties that wrote the rest of the story. In Green County, Reed came out ahead 3,812 to 1,344. In LaRue County (where Reed lives), Reed ended the night with 4,634 to Mills’ 1,655.

Lebanon Middle School has a new principal.
Tuesday evening, Nov. 14, the Lebanon Middle School SBDM Council selected Millie Blandford to become the LMS principal after Christina McRay resigned to become the principal at the Marion County Area Technology Center.
Blandford has been working in the education field for going on 22 years now. She taught science for 17 years, and has served as an assistant principal for Spencer County Middle School since 2012.

Marion and Washington counties will be joining together for the next Relay For Life event in June at the Lebanon-Springfield Airport.
According to Relay For Life Community Manager Drew Underwood, the event will look a lot different than previous years.
“We’re really trying to do a lot of things differently,” he said. “It used to be a cookie cutter event. It didn’t really matter what city you went to, what time of year it was, it was always the same.”

There will be no garbage pick-up in Marion County on Thursday, Nov. 24, Thanksgiving Day. The normal Thursday garbage route will be picked up on Wednesday, Nov. 23. The Friday garbage route will be picked up on Monday, Nov. 28. Please set our your garbage earlier than normal.
Lebanon City Hall, Marion County Clerk’s office, PVA office, county judges office, Marion Circuit Court Clerk’s Office, Marion County Sheriff’s Office will be closed on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Those offices will re-open Monday, Nov. 28.

An attorney was arrested Wednesday morning, Nov. 9, by Kentucky State Police and the FBI on an indictment that alleges he stole more than $200,000 from an area client following a civil settlement.
Danny Perkins Butler, 70, who lives in Campbellsville, was indicted on two Class C felony counts and faces up to 10 years in prison, on each count, if found guilty.

Charles Josh Blanford, 36, of 375 Rueben Smith Road in Loretto was indicted in Marion Circuit Court recently for first-degree rape, incest and unlawful use of electronic means to induce a minor to engage in sexual or other prohibited activities. According to the indictment, in October of 2015, Blanford committed rape and incest. His bond was set at $50,000, and was ordered to have no contact with the complaining witness.

Christmas in the Park will take place at Graham Memorial Park in Lebanon Wednesday, Nov. 23.
The event will officially begin at 6:30 p.m., with free cookies, popcorn and hot chocolate. The lighting of the park will be at 7 p.m. Santa Claus will arrive on one of Lebanon's finest fire trucks at 7:15 p.m.
The park staff invites you to come out and visit with Santa, enjoy refreshments and walk the track taking in all of the displays sponsored or donated by local merchants and individuals.